In the past few years, my fellow Germans raised their eyebrows when I told them that I was taking a group of high school students to our partner school in the USA. "Are you really sure you want to take them to a country that behaves like we did 70 years ago?", was the underlying question.

I never had an appropriate answer.

Now, without you, W., I can come back to the USA without this sort of question in mind.

God bless America and W's retirement. May he live long enough to realize what he did to his country and to the world!